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Kidney failure is caused/aggravated by diabetes, hypertension/high blood pressure, and stress. All of these have a major environmental / social factor.
by ahazred8ta 3y ago
Kidney failure is caused/aggravated by diabetes, hypertension/high blood pressure, and stress. All of these have a major environmental / social factor.
- EA-3167 3y agoHigher rate of obesity as well, which mostly explains the diabetes and hypertension. Obesity and diabetes are certainly environmental/social as you put it, but hypertension in people of African descent probably also has a genetic component in addition to the rest. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429313/